Panasqueria Mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal - This specimen of muscovite is host to a group of color zoned crystals of apatite. This inky blue color is rare from Panasqueira. All but one of the crystals are complete. The back crystal is on the edge of the specimen and is about 80% complete. Overall size is 6.5x5.0x4.6 cm. Ex Luis Miguel Fernandez Burillo collection

Panasqueira Mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal - Golden brown siderite crystals are stacked atop two tones apatite crystals and a bed of shiny muscovite. Overall size is 4.8x3.1x2.4 cm

PIZZO MARCIO, VAL VIGEZZO, NOVARA, ITALY - Light blue beryl var aquamarine of 1 cm in size ! A classic from this italian locality. Overall size is 4.5x4x3 cm. Weight is 72 gr.

Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy - Sculptural group of copper-rich aragonite with the classic delicate blue color. The aggregate consists of several sprays of elongated calcite, usually diverging as either a papillon (bowtie) of arrange in a semiparallel, artichoke fashion, then locally covered by a number of curvy coralloid aragonite crystallized wires. Quite a sought-after classic from this prolific mining district, now long defunct. Overall size is 7.6 × 5.1 × 4.5 cm. Weight is 70 gr. Ex Lehmann (CH) collection. Original label pasted on the specimen.

Trepča, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo - A great real esthetic specimen with well defined bright arsenopyrite crystals surrounded by quartz crystals ! There are also some sphalerite enclosed and rhodochrosite. A real nice specimen rare to find ! Overall size is 3.8 × 3 × 2.3 cm. Weight is 25 gr

NUXIS, RIO BACHERA, CAGLIARI, ITALY - Large off-matrix golden barite crystal. The crystal is 7x5x2.5 cm in size. It shows the contact with the matrix on the back. Nice luster and phantoms.

San Giovanni mine, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardegna, Italy - Cluster of waterclear gemmy barite crystals ! The barites are up to 3 cm in size. Nice specimen of 5.5x4x4 cm

Brosso mine, Torino, Italy - Nice glassy baryte crystals up to 1 cm show on a carpet of siderite crystals with tiny pyrite crystals on. Classic from this mine. Overall size is 7x4x2 cm

Dreislar, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany - A good Dreislar example with tightly packed ivory white blades of barite with a pink baryte backing, dotted over by isolated dark golden iridescent chalcopyrite and some off white dolomite rhombs. Size: 4.3 × 7.1 × 4.8 cm

NUXIS, RIO BACHERA, CAGLIARI, ITALY - Very nice cluster of golden baryte ! The cluster is composed by 5 well terminated baryte crystals up to 3.8x2 cm in size ! Classic finding of 2010. Overall size is 5x4.5x2.8 cm. Weight is 90 gr.